The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-02-03
CRIME arm CASUALTY
Il New Jersey Bank Treasurer Slzips
TO Canada with s3O,OOO-TgIItrOek,s
tatement-Other Criminal Matters

4 StssutAAg1cSs
JERSEY CITY, Jan. 29.-The Germa
mia Savings Bank, at 40 Newark ave
nue., closed its doors this morning. Sec
rotary and Treasurer Schroeder is miss
ing, and it is believed he has gone tt
Canada. There is deficit of $50, OO(
in the cash account. Application vii
be made for receiver. Vice President
Louis A. Sinans says that the securities
are intact. News of the wreck of the
bank spread rapidly and the street was
thrOnged with anXioms depoSitorS
Schroeder left his house after brief in
teryiew with his wife Thursday night.
The trustees met last night and found
the books all written up and the securi-
ties intact, but there was not a cent OF
the cash balance Of $50, 900. The truS-
tees claim that the assets are sufficient
topay all claims. Schroeder fled after
seeing that he could net conceal his
crime. He is Il well known German and
general fayorite. He has wife and
two children. and is known to have lost
money i'll speculation.
The police have learned that Treas
uref Schroeder was at home at : O'Clock
this morning. He is being searched
for. The trustees of the bank were on
yon this morning ordered the trustees
to settle bank affairs by dispOSing of all
it's available securities. Counsel foI
the bank stated that depositors would
not lose over 20 per cent at most, and
that all probably would be paid in full
eventually. Schroeder left Il six
months note upon himself for $50, zoo
at the bank. dated January 3lst to
President Beinan's order.
A FOOL WITH GUN.
NEW YORK. Jan. pa Washington
special says: Last evening ex-Con-
gresham Page of California was pass
ing through the bar of Welcker's hotel,
when son of Senator Fair of Nevada
called on to him to stop and have Il
drink. Page declined and was passing
on when he saw that young Fair, who
was under the influence of liquor, had
pulled revolver. Page had no idea
that Fair really intended anything ser
ious. but caught him quickly by the
hand that held the revolver and threw
it up. The pistol Immediately dis
charged. the ball lodging in the ceiling.
Page took the revolver away from the
Young man and then walked home.
BLAZING COTTON.
NEW YORK. Jan. GA fire broke
out this afternoon on the Cromwell pier
No. 8. North river, and in less than an
hour the whole structure and its con-
tents were destroyed. The steamers of
this line ply between New York and
New Orleans. When the engines, sum-
moned by alarms OF fire, got to the
scene the whole pier was one mass of
flames. The fire was first seen in a
stack of cotton bales in the center of
the deck and the rapidity with which the
flames spread barely gave the dock hands
time to escape. The horses attached to
trucks were on the dock at the
time and it was supposed that some of
them had been burned. Along side of
the pier lay the steamer Louisiana,
which was ready to sail, and Oh her
decks were the passengers waving their
adiues to their friends on shore. On
the other side of the dock was the
steamer New Orleans. Both vessels
were lowed out to mid-Stream. The
passengers On the Louisiana were taken
off by police officers on the dock who
were protecting the non-union work
men. The vessels upper joiner works
were in flames while the passengers
were being passed down the side. The
Louisiana was towed ont into the
stream and the flames eXtinguished.
She will be ready to sail as soon as re-
pairs are completed. 1t was reported
that the fire was started by the strikers
but the police deny this. The police
estimate the damage at about $1,000;
fully insured. The cause of the fire is
not known.
wrrTRoCK CREATES A SENSATION.
ST. LOUIS. Jan. 29.-The dispositions
Of Frederick WittrOck, alias Jim Cum
mins'' and w. w. Haight in its case of
the State VS.. Fotheringham, the Adams
express messenger, who is accused of
COMPLETELY in the noted train robbery,
4.,I IN ha non lt jefferson ('itV
to-day. Haight's account of his Con-
nection with the robbery did not differ
materially from that given by him pre-
Viously. Wittrock, however, in this
his last story of the affair, adds the
rather sensational statement that after
he had bound the messenger in the cal
and secured the booty, he offered Fotil-
eringham $4,000 if he would give the
detectives a false description of him
Fotheringham replied, IN see about it
Send the money to j. j. Nappes. Kan
so. because he said ''Damsel scared
Fotheringham into giving good de
description of me.
A BURGLARS confession.
A special from Marshal, Mo-, says
Sheriff Ayers returned to this city this
morning from Kansas City with James
Lyons, for whom the officers have beeI
searching for several months for horse
| stealing. He has confessed to having
been implicated in the Miami ant
| OIathe bank robberies which occurred
some two years ago. This is the frs
intimation as to who committed thu
robberies. Lyons refuses to state VIII
his accomplices were, but confesses t
have $4,000 slowed away as his shar
in the Doodle.
MURDER N SHAWNEE COUNTY.
TOPEKA, Jan. 29.-Penny Rod, al
Indian, shot and killed John MahleI
his brother-in-law, this afternoon a
Rossville, small town on the Unio
Pacific railroad in this county. Bot
had been drinking at Rods house
Mailer had returned to-day after fou
wears. When killed he was lying upo
bed in Rods house asleep. Count
Coroner Hibben departed on the nigh
train to hold an inquest. Rod is i
the city Jail.
ATTEMPTED WHOLESALE POISONING
, DETROIT, Mich. Jan. 31.-An Ever
ing Journal special from jackson
case of Mrs. /. +. Whitman against hC
husband, a prominent business maj
was brought to climax to-day. Mr.
Whitman objected to the presence
Sarah Mclean. the woman in the cas-
| i'll her Mrs. Whitman's) house, an
she went to her brothers.. To-day
J breakfast time a box of candy was +
: ceived by the children of Fred Wellin
Mrs. Whitman's brother, and they a
it. yelling also ate some of it.
; noon the children were taken very sic
: and yelling came in later also sic
Physicians found arsenic poisoning W;
!, the cause. The children came. ne
; dying. a note in the box was in Sara
McLean's writing. She has been a
!, rested and jailed.
=, MYSTERIOUS MURDER
q MILWAUKEE Jan. 3I.-A special
the Evening Wisconsin from EScoub
/ Mich. says horrible murder was con
mitted at Perkins small station abo
fifteen miles north of that place SatJ
day night, the victim being mi
manned Peterson. who was found in b
with his head split open. the deed ma
J: ing been committed with an axe. Nj
e Peterson claims she awoke and fOul
a boarder named johnson attempti
:; TO stab her with knife. Her stori
e are contradictory. She has been arr
> ted and the officers are after johnson
d GEORGIA DOUBLE MURDER.
II MACON, Ga, Jan. 3I.-News reach
hare This MORNING of a TRAGEDY in ToF